The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-18
1eferreo Matter.
Notes and Opinions,

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sas. There you may be elected mayor
of one-horse town and grow up with
the country"
ACCORDING to President McCosh
there has been less drinking among
the students, less opposition to the
faculty and better order generally since
the secret society system was abolished
at Princeton.
THERE are nearly twenty millions of
people in Japan belonging to the agri-
cultural classes, but of its area of one
hundred millions of acres twelve mil
lions only are in cultivation, and from
these are produced all the food and
textile plants grown to feed and clothe
thirty-eight millions of people. The
untitled area yields only fuel.
A GENTLEMAN informs us that the
phrase, &" a government of the people,
by the people and for the people," was
used in this city by Wendell Phillips
in speech made before the war, and
consequently President Lincoln's use
of it at the Gettysburg speech was not
original. We do not doubt it. "There's
nothing new under the sun" Possibly,
and indeed quite likely, some one used
it before Mr.. Phillips, but Mr.. Lin
coins words gave the sentiment an
enduring fame.-HdyerhW Gazette.
TIE condition of the poor in so-called
civilized countries is for the most part
wretched chiefly because the masses
know nothing of the proper methods
of preparing food, or of the selection
of it. They as a rule waste their food
fund in eXtravagant and iniudicious
purchases, and then they spoil half they
buy through their culinary incapacity.
Out of these spoiled meals, out of all
this indigestible, unpalatable food, out
of the disgust which such barbarous
cooking breeds arises the craving for
drink which drives thousands and tens
of thousands to the saloon for comfort
and compensation.
A VERY sensible paper on hotel and
restaurant feeling appears in the Forum,
for May and sets forth the rather APP
palling proportions of this practice.
The eXacton is a most unreasonable
one, and quite deserves the excoria-
ton of " licensed robbery" which Mr..
Howard denominates it. 60 For it must
not be forgotten" he says, that when
you pay your legitimate restaurant or
and for proper civility and proper at
knives and food" The worst feature
in this, after all, is the demoralizing in
huence on the community in general
Traveller.
THERE is penalty attached to the
possession of financial means that is
made so severe by inconsiderate per-
sons as to become almost an injustice.
The announcement in the public press
of large gift from any individual to
benevolent cause is almost invariably
the precursor of deluge of begging
letters. These may or may not reach
the hands of the persons to whom they
are addressed, but somebody's time
must be expended in opening them,
and as they come by the hundred this
is no small task. To answer them all
would require the constant service of
secretary, while to give all that is asked
would bankrupt the richest man in
twelve-month. -New York Observer
THE Norwich Bulletin cries out for
an inventor who will devise an APP
paratus, simple in construction and
working, for detaching the shafts or
pole from a carriage, by means of which
fractions animal can be allowed to
continue on its runaway career with
out dragging after it to possible de-
struction the occupants of the carriage.
1t is argued that horseback rider who
should strap himself to his beast so that
he could not dsmount in case of the
horses falling or rolling would be con-
sidered foolhardy, but it is parallel
case when men and women will sit in
vehicle which is securely hitched to a
horse, and, if the animal runs away, re-
main in it, in the hope of controlling it,
until it is dangerous to jump and dan
gerous to remain.
INVENTED schemes of social recon-
struction to reduce the inequalities of
nature to plane have been prominent
products of labor in all ages. All of
these so-called social PHILOSOPHERS have
been many times resurrected and buried.
Nothing new in them is possible, and
there is nothing new in the Henry
George theory. But of all the social
schemes that ever had a run, this is the
most contradictory and baseless. 1t
encourages the idea of community of
goods by the idea of community of
property in the land; yet it comes out
in nothing but taxes on the land and
all the extreme inequalities of property
in all other things. 1t encourages the
idea that there is a socialism by which
ignorance, idleness, indulgence and I'M
thrift can share the products of intelli-
gence, industry, self-denial and thrift
yet it offers nothing to bring this
about.-Correspondence Cincinnati Ga
zette.
NEXT to the word coercion &C.
ours in frequency the term " cloture " in
connection with British parliamentary
proceedings. BY the general public
cloture is believed to correspond in
meaning to the phrase ''previous ques-
ton in American legislative bodies.
; In effect it is virtually the same; both
may prevent further debate upon a
! question, but the conditions are con-
siderably different. The cloture was
invented by Mr.. Gladstone himself no
longer ago than 1880, and presented on
an occasion when he moved that GER
tain Irish member, famous for his OBJ
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